Dennis Koeppel became the Assistant General Counsel for the Division of Elementary, Secondary, Vocational, and Adult Education (DESAVE) in November 2013. Mr. Koeppel worked in DESAVE since first joining the Office of the General Counsel in November 1984. Prior to that, Mr. Koeppel was a litigator in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mr. Koeppel is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received a B.S. in biology in 1977 and his J.D. degree in 1980.